Rare and unique works by some of the most fascinating printmakers will be offered at Christie’s sale of Modern and Contemporary Prints, at King Street on Wednesday, 18 September 2013. Among 203 lots at auction, collectors could find prints by Erich Heckel, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Giorgio Morandi. Christie’s expected to realise in the region of £4 million ($6,2 million). The highlight of the sale sale is an outstanding group of German Expressionist prints, all belonging to private collections, including a veritable icon of the period, Erich Heckel’s Stehendes Kind, circa 1910-1911, estimated £100,000 – 150,000 ($156,000 – 235,000).
The most remarkable single work by Picasso offered in the auction is Portrait de Jacqueline accoudée, circa 1963-64, estimated £50,000 – 70,000 ($78,000 – 110,000).
Other notable works include Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s very rare colour woodcut of a female nude, Modell, from 1911, estimated £250,000 – 350,000 ($390,000 – 545,000); Edvard Munch’s two burnished colour aquatints Standing Nude, estimated £220,000 – 280,000 ($343,000 – 436,000) and Nude Standing in an Interior, estimated £300,000 – 500,000 ($468,000 – 780,000).
